Yahoo's "Project Fraternity" Docs Leaked — Rumors about the possible acquisition of Facebook, usually with Yahoo as buyer, have been around for most of this year. Not that Yahoo or Facebook have asked for this attention, but the media is getting antsy. Robert Young put it best last week …

The Problem with Yahoo's Facebook Numbers — There was a nice little scoop on Techcrunch this morning - Michael Arrington got his hands on some revenue projections concerning Yahoo's purchase of the Facebook. I've spent a little time parsing the numbers, and the projections look sound, if not overly optimistic.

Setting The Record Straight — As part of one of Microsoft's on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for effect …

RIM sues Samsung over BlackJack name — Research In Motion is suing Samsung, claiming that the name of the company's new BlackJack smart phone is too similar to that of RIM's own BlackBerry devices. — The suit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

IE7 promo page — I was going to read some Penny Arcade, but Robert Scoble invoked me. Jeremy points out that Google had an IE7 promo page that looked remarkably similar to a Yahoo! IE7 promo page. — I can only speak for me personally on this. If Jeremy looked into it and says that …

Chambers: Video is the 'killer app' — SAN JOSE, Calif. — 8:50 a.m. PST — Cisco CEO John Chambers just said that "if there is a killer app, it is video," as part of his keynote speech kicking off the Cisco C-Scape analysts conference here. — "Things like YouTube are just the baby steps …

GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source — Today is quite a milestone for Google Web Toolkit: with the GWT 1.3 Release Candidate, our team is very happy to announce that all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. There's a lot to say, but let's start with our mission:

digg users are getting paid—just not by digg — Update: If you know of someone doing this let me know and get a C-Note. — Update2: The first tip is in, and *if* it is correct someone paid off the number five digg user this week. — I know these reports have been going around …

2006 Web Technology Trends — It's December already and so it's about that time to reflect on what has happened in Web Technology during 2006 - and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the trends and new products we've seen …

Week of the Independent Mac Developer — From MacHeist: — "That's why we're declaring this The Week of the Independent Mac Developer, and in an effort to spread the word about these hidden gems, we've put together a collection of some of the best darn software available on the Mac for a steeply discounted $49."

Welcome To Search Engine Land! — It's official. Search Engine Land has now formally launched. I know, I know — we've been posting for over a week here. But now our new design is (mostly) in place, so it's time to declare ourselves fully operational.

FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing — The Federal Trade Commission yesterday said that companies engaging in word-of-mouth marketing, in which people are compensated to promote products to their peers, must disclose those relationships. — In a staff opinion issued yesterday …

Eben Moglen on Free Software and Social Justice — Eben Moglen, lawyer with the Free Software Foundation, gave a keynote address at the October 2006 Plone conference in Seattle. The video, by Grace Stahre, the ONE/Northwest & The Plone Community, and Versant Media, can be seen at YouTube or downloaded from archive.org.

Seven Habits of Highly Successful Websites — I got a phone call from my father the other day. "Oh," I thought immediately, "he's probably calling to finally apologize for failing to attend that basketball game I played at in fourth grade." But no, I was once again wrong.